COORDINATING INTER-REGION OPERATIONS IN PROVIDER NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS

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EP 4 535 747 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	18.06.2025 Bulletin 2025/25

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	09.04.2025 Bulletin 2025/15

(21)	Application number: 25156929.9

(22)	Date of filing: 12.04.2018

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

H04L 12/46^(2006.01)

H04L 41/5006^(2022.01)

(52)	Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC):
	H04L 41/5006

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

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Priority:

04.05.2017 US 201715587280

(62)	Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
	21196283.2 / 4009607
	18721237.8 / 3619893

(71)	Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
	Seattle, WA 98108-1226 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	HOOD, Logan Michael Seattle, 98109-5210 (US) GALENTINE, Jonathan Seattle, 98109-5210 (US) NICOTRA, Vincent Gerard Seattle, 98109-5210 (US)

(74)	Representative: D Young & Co LLP
	3 Noble Street London EC2V 7BQ London EC2V 7BQ (GB)

(54)	COORDINATING INTER-REGION OPERATIONS IN PROVIDER NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS

(57) Methods and apparatus for coordinating inter-region operations in provider networks. An inter-region coordinator (IRC) operates asynchronously to the control planes of regional networks to coordinate inter-region operations. The IRC in a region may include one or more IRC servers. To perform inter-region operations, the servers may implement a local-remote-local method in which a server invokes an API in the local region to get work, sends the work to a control plane of a remote region, receives a response from the remote region, and informs the control plane in the local region of the status of the work.

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